In a damning report the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has said that the 2021 grounding of cargo vessel BBC Marmara (IMO 9454228) on the west coast of Scotland was the result of a watch officer being asleep and probably drunk when the vessel grounded. MAIB also cited systemic...
An engine room fire aboard then Maltese-flagged tanker Endo Breeze (IMO 9239977) in April 2022 was caused by a maintenance error, according to an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). During the evening of April 29th 2022 a fire started in the engine room of the 600ft...
General cargo ship Vyacheslav Arshinov (IMO 9945136) ran aground on December 1st in the Astrakhan region near the village of Solenoye Zaymishche. Navigation was not disrupted, and no oil spill occurred. 2022-built, Russia-flagged, 6,305 gt Vyacheslav Arshinov is owned and managed by Idel Shipping...
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NorthStandard’s Strike & Delay class has introduced Weather Cover into its suite of risks. The marine insurer and Group Club said that this provided shipowners and charterers with the first-ever marine insurance protection to mitigate the threat posed to ships solely by adverse weather conditions....
It is not just the price cap that has affected Russia’s ability to export oil in recent days. One of the worst and longest-lasting storms in history in south-eastern Europe has hit Greece, the Balkans, Turkiye, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia. Oil loadings from the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and...
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Container ship Zim Europe (IMO 9189354) will be taking the long way round from Boston, Massachusetts to Port Klang, Malaysia, rather than transiting the Suez Canal and passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen. The move follows three attacks in the region on vessels linked to Israel. The...
The use of modern social media outlets is being exploited by the Houthi militia who have hijacked car carrier Galaxy Leader (IMO 9237307) and taken it to an anchorage off Hodeidah. It used to be unusual for hijackers to broadcast live from aboard a captured ship. Times have changed. Yemen’s Houthi...
Further details have emerged about the elderly bulk carrier Raptor (IMO 8212350), which sank in recent storms in the Eastern Mediterranean, with the presumed loss of a dozen lives. Indications point to the vessel being blacklisted by PSCs of the Paris MOU and the Black Sea MOU. Two years ago the...
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has published CV Safety Alert 02/2023 that provides reminders, considerations and recommendations on the risks associated with the carriage of battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) on roll-on, roll-off (RORO) ferries. Some risks associated with BEV fires onboard DCVs include: Further considerations BEVs are approximately 25% heavier than vehicles with internal…
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Autonomous shipping might have been out of the headlines over the past year, but that does not mean progress has slowed. Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K LINE) and the Nippon Foundation have recently demonstrated autonomous navigation on a RoRo vessel for a round-trip of about 1,000 miles, between Hitachi...